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Field notes from 35+ years in the trenches. Mostly C# / .NET / Avalonia, some Rust, rants about OOP, retro emulation, and whatever weird thing has me up at 2am.

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0x04 2026.04.25 Windows 11 won't let you mix wallpaper types across virtual desktops — and the fix is one PNG Spent thirty minutes trying to get a different background on each Windows 11 virtual desktop. Pictures work fine. The moment a solid color or slideshow joins the mix, every desktop snaps to the same setting. Here's what's actually happening, what Microsoft has admitted, and the one-pixel workaround that sidesteps it. windows-11 virtual-desktops wallpaper task-view personalization troubleshooting registry group-policy operator-notes 3′